Company

About RedRat

RedRat Ltd is a private limited company that was founded by Dr. Chris Dodge in 2002 following significant interest in his PC-based devices developed to control consumer electronics equipment. He was awarded UK Government funding to further develop IR technology and the first commercial RedRat was born.

Meet the Team

Technical Director

Chris is the company’s founder and Technical Director. As well as overseeing all technical, customer support and product development activities he also provides consultancy to organisations wanting to integrate RedRat devices into their own testing environment or develop bespoke testing facilities from the ground up.

Financial & Purchasing Director

Production Manager

Jon is our Production Manager and his activities include assembly, programming and testing RedRat devices. He is also involved in product development activities, developing and maintaining our website and customer support.

Software Developer

Jason is primarily involved in developing and supporting RedRat’s range of software applications, helping with a new phase of development work to improve reliability, usability and to add support for our new devices. With his recent PhD in Extra-Galactic Physics, he has no problems seeing the bigger picture when it comes to product development.

Firmware Developer

James is the newest member of our development team. He is involved primarily in firmware enhancements and low level work needed to research and develop our new product range, including RF4CE and Bluetooth devices.

Consultant

Philip has worked for RedRat as a consultant for several years, following many years of work in Cambridge research labs and start-ups. Utilizing his PhD in parallel architectures for embedded systems, he has been responsible for many developments in the more recent generations of our devices.

Marketing Consultant

Sue is our marketing specialist and co-ordinates all our marcomms and PR activities. She is currently compiling a series of client success stories to feature in our resource library, so if you would like to share your experience of using RedRat devices with others then send an email to sue.hunt@redrat.co.uk

Customers

Since our founding we have worked with more than 300 customers across the consumer electronics, broadcast, home automation and assistive technology industries in over 40 countries worldwide. We are regarded as a leading developer of PC-powered remote control technology and we have established partnerships with many internationally recognised brands including the BBC,DirecTV, Comcast and Samsung. Please take a look at some of the organisations that use RedRat systems.